Alexander’s Weekly Messenger was published every Wednesday. As a newspaper, it followed a common approach of one volume
each year, with periods running from January-December. Poe’s connection with the magazine seems not to have started until the
June 1839 issue, when he joined Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine and ended after May 6, 1840, when he somewhat
unceremoniously left Burton’s employ.

All of the entries listed above were initially identified and reprinted by Clarenced S. Brigham in “Edgar Allan Poe’s Contributions to Alexander’s Weekly Messenger,”
Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, April 1942, 52:45-124. (This article was reprinted as a separate item in
1943, using the original text but with altered pagination, reflecting its status as an independent article rather than one of a
series of articles.)

Because nothing appears in this newspaper with Poe’s signature, all items are attributed based on contents and style. All of
the items attributed to Poe by C. S. Brigham have been included in this bibliography. H&C give the same items, from the same
source, omitting only “Thomas Paine” and “Disinterment.” In his notes at the University of Iowa, dated June
26, 1961, Mabbott comments that “Two pieces were regarded with doubt; one of these, an anecdote of Thomas Paine, now seems to
be almost surely by someone else . . . the other . . . now seems to me pretty clearly Poe’s.”